Civil Rights Movement Quiz

________ was a court case that required all schools across the country to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.”

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Roe v Wade

• Parks v Montgomery

________ were protests led by college students against segregation at lunch counters.

• Sit-ins
• Freedom Rides

• March to Montgomery

• Boycotts

The arrest of Rosa Parks began the ________.

• Sit-ins

• Brown v Board of Education

• Stand in the School House Door

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

The ________ desegregated a high school in Arkansas in 1957.

• Little Rock Nine

• Brown v Board of Education

• Stand in the School House Door

• Salem to Montgomery March

________ was bombed in 1963 by the KKK and four little girls were killed.

• Dexter Street Baptist Church

• 17th Street Baptist Church

• 16th Street Baptist Church

• Ebenezer Baptist Church

________ were college students who rode desegregated buses through the South and were met with violence when they arrived in Alabama and Mississippi.

• A. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• B. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• C. Congress of Racial Equality

• D. Freedom Riders

The attack on peaceful protestors walking in the Voting Rights March from Salem to Montgomery was known as

• March on Salem

• Freedom Summer

• Bloody Sunday

• Montgomery Massacre

Which act was finally passed in 1964, in the memory of President John F. Kennedy?

• The Voting Rights Act

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Freedom Act

• The Integration Act

Which act prohibited discrimination in voting and secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country?

• The Voting Rights Act

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Freedom Act

• The Integration Act

During __________, three civil rights workers were killed by the KKK while helping people register to vote.

• the Freedom Rides

• Salem to Montgomery March

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Mississippi Freedom Summer